I had so much fun teaching this creative writing workshop on the narrative power of silence that I had to write this craft essay about it. Sharing here: open.substack.com/pub/fabienne...

I wrote a new entry in my Substack this week! Consider subscribing for a full breakdown of how casting your characters might help you finish that novel! fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

I keep forgetting this platform, hoping to be better at sharing on here this new year. Check out my Substack recap/looking ahead mashup.

I wrote an essay on loss that is really a eulogy of a man who impacted me greatly. The essay is about how his loss was my first experience with grief as a child. Where would you submit such a piece?

Sharing my last Substack once more. Subscribe! I'd love to grow a little community of readers and fellow writers/thinkers. open.substack.com/pub/fabienne...

When you read a book and love it and then take the time to post a review online, it means SO MUCH to the writers. Thank you.

Dancing in the Baron's Shadow by @fabyjosaphat.bsky.social Nicolas, a bourgeois socialist is sent to the notorious Fort Dimanche prison by dictator Papa Doc's militia, and his brother Raymond must try to save him. 💙📚 [ #booksky #historicalfiction #bookrecommendations ]

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

A man on a horse walks into the sea and disappear. It's a story about erasure and how Haitian art resists it. Read the full story here: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/a-man-on-a...

Writing ancestors in fiction is not just woo woo stuff. I wrote about that in my new essay: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/is-the-anc...

My week teaching Fiction as Resistance went just as expected: magical. I wrote about here: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

Guitar from Sinners + Jamea Richmond-Edwards dragon rider = art as ancestral tech. I wrote about this in my Substack! Let me know your thoughts. fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/they-put-t...

Please join us in congratulating @agasendorf.bsky.social ! Florida Humanities has chosen "Dressing The Saints" as its 2025 "Great Reads from Great Places" selection. "Dressing The Saints" will be featured at the National Book Festival on September 6th in Washington D.C.

Thank you, Fabienne, for addressing an important topic in such a beautiful way. We're so grateful to have given it a home. 💜 blreview.org/fiction/what...

I wrote this short story for my mother, and all the women navigating loneliness. Thanks @blreview.bsky.social for giving it a home ✨️. Read it here in their Body Politic issue ⬇️

It's really the little things, like decluttering my desk in the morning and writing morning pages instead of end of day journaling, that make me feel a bit more motivated. Reading list for the class I teach next week: Fiction as Resistance.

So Napoleon Bonaparte gets movies made after him but where are the movies about the Black soldier who challenged him and paid the price? I wrote about Alexandre Dumas and his drive to rewrite his father into history. fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

I have created every single excuse to avoid work today. I just sat down and then got up to go moisturize my hands.

I had fun writing this for my Substack newsletter, and it comes with a poem in it. Subscribe for more 😊 fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/mango-beef...

Two poems written in three past two days. I like this streak. 🦋

Looking for Japanese cafés in Miami that serve coffee, matcha, pastries etc...

My handsome old man is at the groomer today and I'm having separation anxiety. I miss him. I realize how much I love having him by my side every day 💕

Met up with this book club yesterday to chat about ##kingdomofnotomorrow and we had a blast.

Lovely poetry reading with some incredible poets friends 🧡

Spanish moth baby sighted today 🥰

I actually wrote today. A tiny flash piece. This is a gift.

I'm definitely the person watching back to back true crime shows for the soothing effect. No bueno.

O MIAMI! Come to @booksandbooks.bsky.social Friday night to hear me yak about my new book, WELCOME TO #FLORIDA! There's no dress code, so you don't have to wear your dress-up la chanclas. But your emotional support iguana MUST be on a leash. www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-eve...

I am still awake at 3am Lord 😫

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDD

#FLORIDA E-BOOK DEAL ALERT: Debut novel by horror master @tananarivedue.bsky.social, THE BETWEEN, is only $1.99 for Kindle today. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

My conversation with Barbara Kingsolver via @penamerica.bsky.social is up online 🙏🏽 youtu.be/KQaXMSvSoZU?...

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Yours truly in this list of recommended reads for Black History Month! Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social and @blreview.bsky.social 🙏🏽❤️

A social media platform but strictly for writers/poets/artists and their audience...?

If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice. —César Chávez

Trying to conduct a Zoom call with a needy dachshund

I am flooded with ideas for short stories this week. I write them down like a good little writer I am. And then I go through life praying for time (and money) to sit and write them.

fun fact: my family and i do this pretty much every night since @852dude.bsky.social taught me about the buffalo part

do any americans go overseas, ride a bullet train, and think: nah, we don't need this?

There ain't nothin' like Sam Cooke, who was born on this date in Mississippi in 1931. He used his gritty voice and magnetic stage presence to become a star in gospel and then invent soul music. Man, he had a lot of fun!

Someone said "Reciprocal relationships only this year" and I wholeheartedly approve this message. Show up for those who show up for you.

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968

Sunday afternoons are a GREAT time to catch up on the "Welcome to #Florida!" podcast. In recent episodes we've explored Criteria Studios, Mr. Rogers at Rollins College, FL poets & the St. Johns RIver. Dive in! www.buzzsprout.com/1169570

In keeping with our commitment to being a clear and consistent home for immigrant writing, we are proud to announce The Black Lawrence Fellowship for New Immigrant Authors: blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit/30130...

Hey hey, I am excited for this. I am chatting with Barbara Kingsolver in a free virtual event hosted by @penamerica.bsky.social Get tickets: pen.org/event/kingdo... Hope you can join!

reminder to self: rest IS productive